steve_b
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Hello all,
Over the last month me and my brother have been restoring a corsa gsi,
we are going to return it to its former glory but with a few extras that should have been there from factory..... i.e c20let and f28 etc!ha
anyway heres the story so far..........
The purchase
To cut a long story short, mate had made a start on it, put a c20xe in replaced a few items and go bored, He txt me saying are you interested a deal was done and it was purchased to finish off as a runabout for me,
The strip down
We started to strip it down ready for painting, and my brother took a fancy to it, Some old git just stuffed into the side of his nice corsa sxi c20xe so it was an ideal replacement,
so another deal was done,he gave me what i paid for it and it changed hands!lol,
We sourced a few panels from the breakers, bonnets, wings doors etc to replace what was rusty or dented, finished stripping it down inc engine out and then shipped it off to my mates for painting,
The repaint
We sent it up to my mates farm to get a repaint, went for the orignal colour scheme, asked for the engine bay and under all the archs to be done as well, a must in my eyes love the look of fresh paint under a vauxhall arch!ha
Not even a week later it all came back nicly painted and very shiny, WINNER, Big thanks to Izac walley for all his hard work at a cracking price, Highly recommended, He realy pulled out all the stops to get a good finish and im very happy for the conditions that it was painted in, Good work mate!
heres just a few pictures of his work,
The engine
The motor that we have lined up for the corsa is a c20let of course, complete with f28 with 2wd conversion and quaife lsd,
My brother purchased a engine a few months back off C20letmini, thanks for that rich, with the rough spec as follows....
2litre 16v blah blah blah,
kkk hybrid(may be going tubular and t3 or similar though)
cossie "greens"
Cossie FPR,
1.9mm headgasket,
courtenay fast road cams,
QED verniers,
Custom intercooler,
slim type flywheel,
mvaux 6 paddle clutch,
enlarged tophat,
60mm fmic piping
Oh and MBE management!
etc etc etc
we are in the process of slapping a cambelt and tentioner kit on it and the waterpump has been replaced for good measure along with the usual sump gaskets....
more on the engine at a later date but heres a few pics of the work so far!
The rebuild
Once the car came back we set to work on rebuilding the shell, i have a feeling this is gonna be a long process brother is awaiting a compo payment for the smash in his old car,cheers old fella! so we are waiting for those fund for items such as interior,4 pots etc etc but we are cracking on in the meantime and the engine should find its way into the hole buy the weekend,
so far i have rebuilt the backend and started to sort out the interior,
we are using all of the black interior trimmings from the sxi as they are far more upto date hence the lack of dashboard at the minute, black one will be in soon. Infact the old gezzer smashing into the side of his sxi is doing us a great favour as its become some what of a donor car and many of the parts are being used!
sadly its starting to look very untidy on the drive so as soon as i have removed the rack,dash,column and engine she will be going!
The black carpets have been de-glassed and cleaned with some of mothers cleaning productss and is looking as new, looks great rather than the horrible dated grey carpet, the black interior trims are starting to go in too.
I have also managed to fully underseal the chassis so shes looking nice and black under there at the minute,
As soon as the parts we sent to be powdercoated today turn up(friday hopefully) we will be back in business and she will be back on 4 wheels again rather than hovering like she is now!Ha
heres a few pics of the work so far anyway
Il update the progress on my other 2 projects soon when i get a minute!
enjoy the thread any comments welcome, updates should follow daily,
im off untill the 8th so should get plenty done!
kev + steve!
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Nic Barnes
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sounds a very interesting project indeed. amokse grey corsa turbo's, there, errrm, something about them.....
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c20let
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very nice
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Scotty C
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Pissed myself laughing when I saw it mint here -
Then the next piccie, it looks like this -
What are those blue pipes? where do they go to?
Mint project btw, Looking good 
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Nismo
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very nice.
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Alex16v
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Good luck! Awesome project. 
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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Can't wait for updates on this thread, looks like an awesome read  And your mate looks like an awesome painter from those pics, really can't fault the workmanship at all 
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Cybermonkey
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amazing!!! is it Star Silver in colour?? Make it look as factory as possible!!!
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VegasPhil
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Niiiiiiiice Project. Want to see this progress!
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Jambo
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Dave its smoke grey
Awesome project, i miss my old one i want ot build another one 
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steve_b
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Registered: 15th Jun 03
Location: Oswestry, Shropshire
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the painter is IAZ off here with the jagcorsa,
pipes are just heater matrix pipes mate, not sure il be able to get any progress up today as ive been dragged to chester shopping with the mrs.grrrr
was speaking to you yesterday on msn muppet thanks for the chat!yeah smoke grey rules!ha
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mwg
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Nice project.
Wish I had the balls to do something like that Will be worth it!
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jr
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Nice, good to see someone doing things properly
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ash87
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Good progress so far, are you putting standard gsi alloys on aswell?
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Mark330d
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Looks very cool although i hate the rear wiper.
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steve_b
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yeah keeping rear wiper dont wanna go overboard with the looks tbh think the gsi kit looks well enough on its own,
as for alloys think softstars are they ones i want, look subtle and big enough to get some 4 pots under
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Novaneil
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Looks great mate! Good read, keep up with the updates.
Neil
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Dave A
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very nice, as JR said, good to see things being done properly.
needs a gsi rear bumper though
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Dave A
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I have a smoke grey Gsi rear bumper if you want it? dont think the lad that is buying my bodykit wants it anyway.
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Nic Barnes
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quote:
Originally posted by steve_b
was speaking to you yesterday on msn muppet thanks for the chat!yeah smoke grey rules!ha
you managed to get me at a time before id been off outside on a herb smoking mission, hence i may have made some sense.
keep the updates flowing, im interested in seeing how it all ends up.
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steve_b
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nah prefer the late shape bumper and seeing as though we had it kicking about we thought why not,
just looks a little more modern,
the car will have loads of small touchs like this that only the enthusiasts will notice
bit slow on the updates today all i have done is this.....
this enables the engine to go back tomorow when my inlet manifold gasket arrives,
pictures of the engine will be up tomorow night when its in one piece as thats what im on tomorow
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Blonde16vCorsa
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Registered: 8th Jan 03
Location: Oswestry, Shropshire
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Looks more an more like mine everyday! Should of kept the older bumper though fella
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steve_b
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got one so can always change back if i require, will look different when done, only so much u can do with a grey corsa to set them apart though, hope your is ok
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Blonde16vCorsa
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Slowly but surely losin interest to be fair, looks better with an inch of dust on it and keeps the garage company!
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steve_b
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dont give up now uve done the hard bit is a realy nice car get it out and enjoy it mate, you have worked hard on it,
dont like having the same colour one but didnt wanna change colour from the orignal daryl would have only built it if i didnt though!
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